#startup-founders

#startup-founders

Windeck and Aidan Guo, 19, launched Attention Engineering earlier this year to build a next-generation desktop assistant powered by AI. "It's not exactly a desktop assistant, but kind of becomes one: ambient, proactive, and personally understands you," Guo said. "It can surface a lot of insights like how you use your time," he said. In the coming months, the tool will be able to automate everything you do on your computer, like a "cursor for everything," he said.

Pitch decks are slide shows that give investors and customers key details about a company's founders, its product, and its financial performance. "I just write a memo and I tell them you can do a Q&A and ask whatever you want," Srinivas said, referring to potential investors. "And anything else that is not internal data, you can ask Perplexity. Like, it already knows everything."